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Bleacher Report: Cam Newton: Why He Needs To Return To Auburn For His Senior Year!

Normally, I don't advocate players' returning for their senior year. The reason is that usually players don't improve much from their junior to their senior seasons. By their end of their third season, a player is usually developed physically and knows the college game rather well. Also, there is the real possibility of getting injured (see Case Keenum) or being let down by your teammates and coaches (see Jevan Snead). And if that happens, the same college fans who claimed to support you so much and clamored so badly for you to come back won't contribute a nickel to the ...

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Since 2002, we've correctly projected the winner of every single Heisman Trophy contest. Starting in 2010, we're running a season-long Heisman Trophy poll, providing ongoing commentary, and aggregating the best news about the top Heisman candidates around the country.

When it comes to our projections, well, we really can't say it any better than ESPN's Neil Everett - just a few days before the 2009 winner was announced: